{"id":101596,"date":"2019-10-10T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/352010"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:54:00","slug":"apple-now-sells-xbox-controllers-on-its-official-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/apple-now-sells-xbox-controllers-on-its-official-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple now sells Xbox controllers on its official store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent round of software updates brought support for some popular console controllers to iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV and now the Microsoft-made Xbox Wireless Controller has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/product\/HNKT2ZM\/A\/xbox-wireless-controller?fnode=a3\">popped up for sale<\/a> on Apple\u2019s official online store.<\/p>\n<p>While the iPhone\u2019s status as a game platform is nothing new, Apple\u2019s recent steps have seen it expanding the game-driven offerings of it and other Apple-owned platforms through launches like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350885\/Apple_Arcades_debut_heralds_the_launch_of_dozens_of_games_on_iOS_and_Steam.php\">Apple Arcade<\/a> and expanded controller support.<\/p>\n<p>The online Apple Store already offered a small handful of controllers built to work with mobile devices, but the Xbox controller is a new addition to its online listings. Despite the fact that Apple devices now support both Microsoft and Sony\u2019s first-party console controllers, the DualShock 4 has not yet joined the Xbox Wireless Controller on the Apple Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent round of software updates brought support for some popular console controllers to iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV and now the Microsoft-made Xbox Wireless Controller has popped up for sale on Apple\u2019s official online store. While the iPhone\u2019s status as a game platform is nothing new, Apple\u2019s recent steps have seen it expanding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}